U.S. Women Shares Video for New Tune “Like James Stated”
Scratch It Due Out June 30 through 4AD
Could 20, 2025
Images by Colin Medley
U.S. Women (aka Meghan Remy) is releasing a brand new album, Scratch It, on June 30 through 4AD. Now she has shared its second single, “Like James Stated,” through a music video. Comic Tom Henry stars in and directed the tune’s video. Watch it beneath.
The James of “Like James Stated” is soul legend James Brown. A press launch says the tune is “in regards to the therapeutic energy of dancing alone” and is Remy’s lyrical response to Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Factor.”
Henry had this to say about directing and starring within the tune’s video: “When Meg talked to me about making some form of video about this tune that talks about dancing, I had a sudden bolt of inspiration—how a couple of video about dancing? I don’t understand how these concepts come to me.
“To me, this character has a narrative, however in the end, I simply suppose somebody attempting to do one thing nicely, who doesn’t absolutely have the colleges to try this, is humorous and attention-grabbing, and probably unhappy—the 2 and a half issues I wish to be as a comic. That’s why I bought my dancer pal, Gillian, to assist put collectively this dance piece and tried to carry out it as greatest I may. I hope, above all else, everybody finds it breathtakingly lovely, and that I win an award.”
U.S. Women beforehand shared the album’s first single, the 12-minute lengthy “Bookends,” through a music video. It was #1 on our Songs of the Week checklist.
Scratch It got here collectively when the Toronto-based Remy put collectively a brand new band for a one-off efficiency at a pageant in Sizzling Springs, Arkansas. Aided by her pal, guitarist Dillon Watson (D. Watusi, Savoy Motel, Jack Identify), Remy assembled a band of Nashville-based musicians. She then determined to journey to Nashville to document a brand new album with this new band, which options Watson on guitar alongside Jack Lawrence (The Lifeless Climate, The Raconteurs, Loretta Lynn) on bass, Domo Donoho on drums, each Jo Schornikow and Tina Norwood on keys, and harmonica legend Charlie McCoy (Elvis, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison). They recorded Scratch It in solely 10 days. On Could 14 Remy shall be reassembling the band to carry out the album dwell for the primary time at Mushy Junk in Nashville.
U.S. Women’ final album was 2023’s Bless This Mess, which was impressed by Remy’s being pregnant and the beginning of her twin boys.
Remy’s album earlier than that, Heavy Mild, got here out in 2020. Learn our interview with Remy on that album right here.
U.S. Women Tour Dates:
Wed Could 14 – Nashville, TN – Mushy Junk
Sat June 21 – Asheville, NC – Gray Eagle
Solar June 22 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis
Mon June 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Wed June 25 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Thu June 26 – Somerville, MA – The Rockwell
Sat June 28 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Store
Solar June 29 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Corridor
Tue Sept 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
Thu Sept 11 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Cease
